The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture [Hardcover]

The Space Between the Notes examines a series of relationships central to sixties counter-culture: psychedelic coding and rock music, the Rolling Stones and Charles Manson, the Beatles and the `Summers of love', Jimi Hendrix and hallucinogenics, Pink Floyd and space rock. Sheila Whiteley combines musicology and socio-cultural analysis to illuminate this terrain, illustrating her argument with key recordings of the time: Cream's She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow, Hendrix's Hey Joe, Pink Floyd's Set the Controls For the Heat of the Sun, The Move's I Can Hear the Grass Grow, among others.
The appropriation of progressive rock by young urban dance bands in the 1990s make this study of sixties and seventies counter-culture a timely intervention. It will inform students of popular music and culture, and spark off recognition and interest from those that lived through the period as well as a new generation that draw inspiration from its iconography and sensibilities today.A study of sixties and seventies popular music and its related counter-culture. Whiteley illuminates her theories with analysis of key recordings by artists such as The Rolling Stones, Cream and Jimi Hendrix.List of examples, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Cream, Hendrix and Pink Floyd, 3 The Beatles, 4 1967 and Psychedelic Rock, 5 The Rolling Stones, 6 Pink Floyd:Dark Side of the Moon, Notes, IndexUS? 1992Sheila Whiteley Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.